[Rhodes22-list] More motor choice questions

[Bill Effros]

Mike,

Just catching up with the mail.  I love to steer by shifting weight and 
do it for hours on end.  Newbies also can't understand why the wind 
always seems to shift when people go to the head--actually it's just 
weight shifting in the cabin and cockpit causing course changes, not 
wind changes.

Bill Effros

Michael D. Weisner wrote:
> Dave,
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> From: <DCLewis1 at aol.com>
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>> One comment regarding your mounting  the remote on either side of the
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> cockpit
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>> as opposed to the tiller:  sometimes you’re seated on the port side, other
>> times the starboard, and other  times standing peering above the cabin
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> top, but you
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>> ’re always attached to the  tiller when you’re steering.
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> Ah, newbees - they still think that steering is accomplished with the
> tiller.  As you become better aquainted with your R22's performance, you
> should lock the tiller and make slight course corrections by simply shifting
> your weight.  In the days before IMFs (I still live in that past), it was
> (and still is) a common sight to lock the tiller (with the motor on and
> pointed into the wind) and go up forward to hoist the main.  Being
> comfortable with "remote steering" by weight shifting is a valuable asset.
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>> One thing to watch out for when the motor and tiller are not
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> interconnected
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>> is turning the motor prop into the rudder, or conversely.  I imagine the
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> prop
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>> will chew your rudder - that’s one mistake I haven’t made yet.
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> It is impossible to make the motor and the rudder meet on my '81, if the
> motor is in the down and fully vertical position.  The rudder simply won't
> come over far enough.  This may have changed on newer craft.  If so, you are
> correct in assuming that introducing the two will not result in a favorable
> situation (bent prop, sheared pin, less than whole rudder, etc.)  BTW, I
> have learned to carry a replacement shear pin for the prop just in case you
> run aground or hit debris while motoring.  Some folks even carry a spare
> prop.
>
> Mike
> s/v Shanghai'd Summer
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